New paper by Zoltán Elekes and co-authors uses job advertisement data to measure the skill relatedness of jobs, and traces the consequences of skill coherence for the economic performance of local labour markets in Sweden.
Johannes Wachs was awarded a Excellence Grant and Gergő Tóth received a Starting Grant from the National Research Excellence Program in 2024 for their projects on "The Economic Geography of Digital Innovation" and "Health and Social Networks".
Dima Yankova and collaborators show in their article published in Technovation that experinced researchers can increase the impact of their work if they run joint research with non-academic partners.
The Agglomeration, Networks, and Innovation project will to look into how dynamics of spatial social and collaboration networks, and diffusion mechanisms running on them influence innovation and inqualities in cities.
Gergő's FORTE Research Grant will be carried out at Centre for Regional Science, Umea University between 2025-2028 and will focus on skills and the resilience of regions against economic shocks.
